Nantasket Beach is a beach in the town of Hull, Massachusetts. This is part of the Nantasket Beach Reservation , run by the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation. The beachfront has light gray sand and is one of the busiest beaches in Greater Boston. At low tide, there are many tide pools.
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Name
The name "Nantasket" comes from Wampanoag and means "in the strait" "receding" or "where the tide meets" because Hull is a peninsula. Nantasket was completed shortly after Plymouth Colony and before Massachusetts Bay. Roger Conant was in the area after leaving the Plymouth Colony and before going to Cape Ann in 1625. Until Hull was founded in 1644, the English settlers called the entire local area "the Nantasket Peninsula."
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History
In 1825, Paul Warrick founded "The Sportsman Hotel" on Nantasket Avenue. Later, more hotels were built and steamboats made three day trips between Nantasket Beach and Boston in the 1840s. Ralph Waldo Emerson spent time at Nantaskett in July 1841, reflecting on the "beauty of goodness" and "the book of flesh and blood." In 1909, an entertainment area called Paragon Park was built adjacent to the beach. It closed in 1985.
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External links
- Nantasket Beach Reservation Department of Conservation and Recreation
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